Originally posted by faidoi:
Question: Does converting a file from RAW take up a lot of processing power. Possibly upgrading to a RAW camera but still have a Pentium II computer. |
No; not the conversion per se, but often when converting you are doing other things with it. Breezebrowser, for example, converts from raw, optionally does it two different ways and combines these to recover highlights, does noise reduction, white balance, reduce as requested, and USM, all at once on one or more images. That can take a minute per shot (from my 4MP raw), on my 2.6 GHz P4 Xeon (it's dual processor but BB only uses one for an image).
If you are editing in Photoshop, and you use the neatimage plugin, I think you would find the conversion time equivalent to that. Or equivalent to the time it takes to save a file in a different format in PS. |
